Carol S. Dweck Quotes

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• More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that…
• Research shows that normal young children misbehave every three minutes.
• Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why…
• Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
• Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes,
• Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'
• It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.
• Don't judge. Teach. It's a learning process.
• You have to work hardest for the things you love most.
• What did you try hard at today?
• You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.
• When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world (the world of fixed traits) success is about proving you’re smart or…
• This point is . . . crucial,” writes Dweck. “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail — or if you’re not the best —…
• This is hard. This is fun.
• Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.
• Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.
• Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even…
• Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard.
• A company that cannot self-correct cannot thrive.
• Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.

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